THE BIG PUMP.
In accordance with arrangements that the pump should stop at the end of the month pumping operations were suspended at 7 o'clock this morning, and the boilers blown off and furnaces cleared. The buckets of drawlifts have , been drawn out of the workings. The water will no doubt rise very rapidly, bat there is a difference of opinion as to what effect the water will have with reference to the generation of gas in the tpnxmding mines. Former stoppages of a f«w days' duration have caused a temporary suspension of operations in the Caledonian, Cure, and other mines connected with the pumping shaft. ' *
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 2
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106THE BIG PUMP. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 2
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